Carmen

2010 · réf. 214371 — New York NY: Metropolian Museum of Art / Yale University Press 2010. Hardcover. VG. Green color illustrated dj with white text. xi 256 pp. Color and bw illustrations. Presentation copy from the author. This handsome volume presents selections from one of America's preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings assembled over the last quarter century by David M. and Julie Tobey. Dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries seventy-two drawings--several previously unpublished--are featured. The diverse array of holdings consists principally of works by Italian masters but also by artists whose careers brought them south of the Alps among them such brilliant draftsmen as Correggio Giulio Romano Parmigianino Salvator Rosa Poussin Bernini Canaletto Tiepolo and their contemporaries. Impressive in their variety the drawings include figure and composition studies landscapes portraits botanical drawings motifs inspired by classical antiquity and designs for painted compositions. Among the highlights are a splendid study of the head of Julius Caesar by Andrea del Sarto a lively sheet of sketches by Perino del Vaga a stunningly naturalistic study of a nude boy by Ludovico Carracci a poetic Guercino landscape charming topographical views by Luca Carlevarijs Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto a rare composition drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and a richly pictorial allegory by Giovanni David to name just a few of the superlative examples in this carefully formed collection. The catalogue includes lengthy entries on each drawing and illuminating biographies of the artists. Every drawing in the Tobey Collection is reproduced in color and accompanied by numerous comparative illustrations. --Book Jacket. Metropolian Museum of Art / Yale University Press hardcover books